Do lexical tones interfere with the realization of intonation types? Given that tone and intonation both use F0 as a primary cue, can a listener reliably identify statements and questions when some of the channel capacity is taken up by lexical tones? We study this issue through a perception test on a carefully designed and obtained intonation corpus on Mandarin Chinese. Our study shows the fol...

Quantitative models of intonation in a variety of languages typically specify a long-range downtrend across the sentence that provides a declining backdrop for the steeper rises and falls of more local pitch events such as accents and word tones. Several studies of this “declination” in English and several other languages have isolated a component of somewhat steeper decline that covers only th...

This paper presents an intonation model which determines intonation contours over intonation phrases. The model is described by four elements: communicative type of an intonation phrase; number of accent groups in it; position of the nuclear accent group in it; and set of target intonation points. Individualization of the model is based on semiautomatic analysis of speaker database. The model w...

A new approach for intonation stylization is introduced, that enables the extraction of an intonation representation from prosodically unlabeled data. This approach yields global and local intonation contour classes arising from a contour-based, parametric and superpositional intonation stylization. Based on findings about the linguistic interpretation of the contour classes derived from corpus...

The present study investigated the effect of using PRAAT as a free computer software package for the scientific analysis of speech in phonetics on pre-intermediate Iranian English as foreign language (EFL) learners’ supra segmental features (i.e., intonation and stress). The design of the study was a Quasi-experimental research design with a pre and post-test. In doing so...

In this paper, we propose a new model for synthesizing fundamental frequency (F0) contours using a stylization and a neural network learning method. The F0 contour is described as the superposition of 4 layered features; global tune, word pitch bias, lexical tone, and the syllabic pitch pattern. We rstly stylize the F0 contour of speech material, and analyze stylized data by statistical approac...

Chironomy means in this paper of intonation modeling in terms of hand movements. An experiment in hand-controlled intonation reiteration is described. A system for real-time intonation modification driven by a graphic tablet is presented. This system is used for reiterating a speech corpus (sentences of 1 to 9 syllables, natural and reiterant speech). The subjects also produced vocal imitation ...